This insect collection gives him the idea for Pokemon.ġ972 The first home video game, Magnavox Odyssey, goes on sale.ġ985 The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in the United States. As a child he searched for bugs under rocks. 28, 1965 Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri is born. So begins the Japanese craze of strange creatures fighting one another.Īug. Two years later, a version called "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" opens in the United States. By the 1980s, sports and nonsports cards became big-money collectibles.ġ954 The movie "Gojira" is released in Japan. Although baseball cards had been around for decades, selling cards in packs encourages trading. Here is a timeline of important dates from the craze that launched a thousand Pikachus.ġ951 Topps introduces its first baseball card set. And once Pokemon caught on, it just kept getting stronger.
A series of events set the stage for the card-trading, game-playing, collectible craze. It's one of the biggest kid fads of the last decade, but the Pokemon craze didn't come out of thin air.
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